John 7:18
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
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In Context
19Didn’t Moses give you the Torah, and yet none of you keeps the Torah? Why do you seek to kill me?”
Cross References
Numbers 11:29Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”
Matthew 6:9Pray like this: “‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
John 5:41I don’t receive glory from men.
John 8:54Yeshua answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
John 12:28Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.”
John 17:4I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
Matthew Henry on John 7:15-37
Christ at the Feast of Tabernacles. 14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? 16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and… Read the whole commentary →